Dear Doctor, did you ever study with CDC whistleblower William Thompson?

My, my, this is embarrassing.

Thompson was one of the authors of a Medscape continuing-education module for physicians. The subject? How to analyze data. choke, gag

Title of the module: “Models for Count Data With an Application to Healthy Days Measure: Are you driving in Screws With a Hammer?”The learning objectives of the module are:“Distinguish characteristics of different tools for data analysis;“Analyze how data regarding self-reported health can be skewed in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System BRFSS survey;“Evaluate results of different evaluation tools on count data from the BRFSS survey.”Let’s see. In 2004, as Thompson admitted in his August 27, 2014, statement, he did himself “drive in screws with a hammer.” He and his co-authors purposely omitted a set of vital data which would have indicted the MMR vaccine in causing autism. This is apparently a superior method of data- analysis, surpassing the material in Thompson’s Medscape learning module.